Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England

Swaston Hall

Sawston Hall

Sawston Hall is a Grade I listed Tudor manor house that dates from the 16th century, and has been home to the Huddleston family for much of that time. The hall boasts several impressive features, including a "magnificent Great Hall complete with Elizabethan panelling and a large Tudor fireplace with fireback dated 1571". There is also a private chapel and a number of priest holes. It is rumoured that Queen Mary I slept here. The house is privately owned and NOT open to the public.

 

Sawston Hall is reputedly haunted by the ghost of Bloody Queen Mary, a Grey Lady in the Tapestry Room (which is reputed to be the most haunted part of the house), the sound of spinet playing, odd noises in the Panelled Room, laughter drifting through the rooms and the door latch lifts in the bedroom that Mary allegedly stayed in. There ae also reports of an invisible "malicious" spirit, said to be responsible for physically accosting a woman and ripping off "almost all of her clothes".

 

National Grid Reference: TL 49033 48736

 

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www.dailymail.co.uk

 

For further information, please visit:

www.historicengland.org.uk

 

For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe; Britain's Haunted Heritage by Keith B. Poole and Britain's Haunted Heritage by J A Brooks.

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Sawston is a large village in Cambridgeshire in England, situated on the River Cam 7 miles south of Cambridge.

Pictured left is Sawston Hall by Duncan Grey. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.